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Now that I have figured out which one I have I am just interested to hear from others who have ART. Are they pretty much the same in personality as a wyckii? How big have you seen them, what do you feed them etc?


Pics would be cool as well. All I can find on the internet is wild ones. I would be interested to see them in an aquarium.

I had an ART (and also a wyckii) quite a while back.

Are they pretty much the same in personality as a wyckii?

Yes.

what do you feed them

I fed mine just about anything. Bloodworms, brine shrimp, earthworms, pellets, pieces of algae wafers. They'll pretty much eat 'em all.

How about size Silirus? In the catelog it show wyckii stay smaller.

I never kept the ART long enough for it to outgrow the wyckii, but I do know that really large ARTs are rare, even in the wild.
But the short answer is yes, ARTs do grow larger than wyckii AFAIK I have not seen wyckii larger than 75 cm SL, even in the wild.

Had them once. Bought three healthy ones in a bag. By the time i got home, one was dead from severe beatings. I put the rest in a tank and true enough, the other was dead in about two weeks. I kept the last one in a smaller tank which it quickly outgrew. I got it to about 9" and then I sort of got scared of it. The ART would attack my net everytime I'd dip it in to the tank. A stick floating on the surface would ellicit the same thing. That thing is just ferocious. I eventually gave it back to the LFS.

Regards,
Mike D.

I have a 15inch artc. I have read what terrors these fish are but I have not witness it yet. Mine is pretty calm and is alway hungry. Also he grew very quickly. This is just my expericence with this fish.

I have a 15inch artc. I have read what terrors these fish are but I have not witness it yet. Mine is pretty calm and is alway hungry. Also he grew very quickly. This is just my expericence with this fish.

How long have you had him? Does he have tanks mates and what size tank?

Out of curiousity

Converting wrote:

I have a 15inch artc. I have read what terrors these fish are but I have not witness it yet. Mine is pretty calm and is alway hungry. Also he grew very quickly. This is just my expericence with this fish.

How long have you had him? Does he have tanks mates and what size tank?

Out of curiousity

In a 240 gallon with Red Devil, Jaguar Chiclid, Oscar. I have had 7 months and it was under an inch we I got it. It lost its eye to either my RD or Jag not sure they both picked on it when it was about 6 inches. Will have its own tank soon.

I taught my 12" one to take food from my fingers, but this had the unintended effect of the catfish lunging from its cave and biting my hand whenever I put it in the water, so there is something to be said for not trying to tame or subjugate Nature's noble creatures.

When it came in to the LFS as a 3" little thing and was bagged up for me, somebody accidentally took it home. During the night it wiped out their tetras. This story got repeated by staff at the LFS, and distorted versions of it found their way into circulation.